BENJAMIN LORDE (37) psychiatrist, intelligent, muscular, dark hair, African American, glasses. Benjamin sits at a desk across from DELILAH SWANN (23), slightly overweight, dirty blond hair, timid. A clock ticks in the background as the camera pans down to Delilah, who is tapping a nervous foot and fiddling with a loose string on her sweater.

DELILAH
He looked at me today.

BENJAMIN
(tapping a pencil against his desk)
Did you say anything to him?

DELILAH
I...I couldn't. He had friends with him.
But he saw me, I know it!

BENJAMIN
(tosses pencil on desk and leans forward)
You need to stop thinking and
start acting.

Delilah straightens in her chair. Her lips twitch and she smiles. She claps her hands like a child and laughs.

DELILAH
Doctor, you're a genius!

FADE OUT

END TEASER

ACT ONE

FADE IN:

EXT - PARKING LOT - LATE AFTERNOON - FEBRUARY 12

We watch as Delilah sits in the driver's seat of her white SUV. She takes a sip of soda and looks over the top of her sunglasses as the door to an office building opens. FELIX MARTIN (26), handsome, well-dressed, confident, and flirty, walks from the building and into the parking lot. Felix's car beeps as he unlocks it with the remote on his keychain. Delilah slips out of her car and walks up behind Felix.

DELILAH
Hello, Felix.

Felix flinches, startled. He turns and squints at Delilah.

FELIX
Do I know you? You look familiar.
(pause)
(snaps his fingers)
I've seen you hanging around the
cafe where me and my boys hang
out after work. You work there,
right?

DELILAH
No.

FELIX
(frowns and leans against car door)
Come to think of it, I've seen you outside
the office fairly often. And the gym.
(pause)

DELILAH
(grins)
I...I just like to be where you are.

FELIX
(laughs nervously)
So are you stalking me or something?

DELILAH
Stalking? Of course not! I'm just
following you to every place you
go and watching everything you do
because I like you. You...you're my
everything!

FELIX
That's the very definition of
stalking, darlin'.

DELILAH
Really, Felix! It's not what you think!
I've just...just been trying to work up
the courage to ask you out.
(pause)
(clasps hands together)
So, what would you say to dinner
this Friday?

DELILAH
I don't think you understand, Felix.
You're going to go on a date
with me. By the end of our date you'll
fall madly in love with me and we'll
spend the rest of our lives together.
Happily. Ever. After.

Delilah pulls a Ruger LC9s from her purse and points it at Felix.

FELIX
You're completely nuts!

DELILAH
(shakes her head)
I don't think my psychiatrist would agree.
Now how 'bout we take my car? I have a
lovely spot in mind for a romantic picnic.

Delilah gestures for Felix to walk in front of her. She forces him to slide past the driver's seat and into the passenger's seat. She keeps the gun aimed at Felix as she buckles up.

DELILAH
Fasten your seatbelt, dear. It's going to
be a bumpy ride.

Delilah cranks the engine and drives out of the parking lot with Felix. The car disappears into a sea of traffic.

Robert steps into the office and holds out a single piece of paper. Sheriff Martin snatches it from his hand and scans the information, his lips moving silently as he reads. A grim smile spreads across his face.

DANIEL
Looks like our little loony bird almost
ran over a pedestrian on her way out
of Portland.

ROBERT
The incident was reported twenty
minutes ago, sir.

The Sheriff walks to a map of Oregon pinned to the wall of his office. He picks up a red marker and circles an area south of Portland. He draws several x's over key roads.

DANIEL
Odds are, our loon will be taking I5 outta
the city. I want a roadblock in these areas
and every side road off of I5. I want every
parking lot and side road searched. Units
are to patrol a fifty mile radius from the
suspect's last known location!

EMILY
Sir...we don't have the manpower
(pause)

DANIEL
(shouts)
Find the manpower! I want that birdie in a
cage before sundown!